Creator: Lloyd James
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-05
List Price: $35.95
Price: $35.95
Review Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider, Library Edition (Ready Reader) / Blackstone Audiobooks:Focuses on the childhood of the dynamic president, describing how Teddy worked hard to improve his poor health and developed a lifelong interest in nature and the conservation of natural resources.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1993-06
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $61.95
Price: $40.44
Review As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning / ISIS Audio Books:It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune. He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain. For a year he tramped through a country in which the signs of impending civil war were clearly visible. Thirty years later Laurie Lee captured the atmosphere of the Spain he saw with all the freshness and beauty of a young man's vision, creating a lyrical and lucid picture of the beautiful and violent country that was to involve him inextricably.
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-20
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $44.95
Price: $31.41
Review A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling / Blackstone Audiobooks:In his first book of non-fiction since 2003, V. S. Naipaul gives us an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation. Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveller, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of “fitting one civilisation to another. ” In A Writer’s People, he discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on, Derek Walcott, Flaubert and his own father among them; how Anthony Powell and Francis Wyndham influenced his first encounters with literary culture; what we have retained–and forgotten–of the world portrayed in Caesar’s The Gallic War and Virgil’s Aeneid; how the writings of Gandhi, Nehru and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his own life: his years in Trinidad; the gaps in his family history; the “private India” kept alive through story, ritual, religion and culture; his ever-evolving reaction to the more complicated and demanding true India he would encounter for the first time when he was thirty. Part meditation, part remembrance, as elegant as it is revelatory, A Writer’s People allows us privileged insight–full of incident, humour and feeling–into the mind of one of our greatest writers. “He brings to non-fiction an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought. [+]I can no longer imagine the world without Naipaul’s writing. ” Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Creator: Carrington MacDuffie
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-06-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $44.95
Price: $31.41
Review Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting / Blackstone Audiobooks:A hilarious and wickedly irreverent look at life with cancerLopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive parents and their five television sets. Irreverent and incredibly funny, Norton rails against self-pity and victimhood and rants about the innumerable copies of Lance Armstrong’s cancer survival book pressed on her by well-meaning family and friends. Alongside the harrowing portrait of her treatments, Norton offers equally amusing memories from her offbeat life. We see her childhood time during a somewhat racist ski trip, a family reunion at a Florida alligator farm, and her life in a tree house with a neighbor, who, despite being vegan, hates mice enough to taxidermy them into miniature versions of racecar drivers, Jesus, a UPS delivery man, and Sally Jesse Raphael. Like David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, Norton’s razor-sharp wit is at once riotous and excruciating. Lopsided is the remarkable debut of a masterful humorist.
Creator: Lloyd James
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-05
List Price: $35.95
Price: $35.95
Review Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers, Library Edition (Ready Reader) / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Flo Gibson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1991-01-30
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.95
Price: $30.95
Review The Zeal Of The Convert (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) / Audio Book Contractors:
Creator: David Sanders
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-03
Price: $30.98
Review Remembering Peter Sellers / Right Recordings:
Creator: Author
Publication date: 2001-01-23
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $14.45
Price: $31.42
Review A Child Called It / Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ):Dave Pelzer's story is the story of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons nearly dead. Dave had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy but an 'it'. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dogs' bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare played out behind closed doors. But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him, care for him, call him their son. It took many years of struggle, deprivation and despair to find his dream and then to make something of himself in the world. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting and inspirational look at the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive despite the odds.
Creator: Lloyd James
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-05
List Price: $35.95
Price: $35.95
Review Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator, Library Edition (Childhood of Famous Americans) / Blackstone Audiobooks:Recounts the childhood of the man who was President during the Civil War.
Publication date: 1992-11
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $49.95
Price: $31.47
Review Eminent Victorians / Blackstone Audiobooks:Four biographical essays show how, during the Victorian era, true humanitarianism was limited by an excess of moral righteousness. Strachey's subjects are ambitious churchman Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, General Charles Gordon, and Rugby headmaster Thomas Arnold. 7 cassettes. The four biographical essays that make up Eminent Victorians created something of a stir when they were first published in the spring of 1918, bringing their author instant fame. In his flamboyant collection, Lytton Strachey chose to stray far from the traditional mode of biography: "Those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead-who does not know them, with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design?" Instead he provided impressionistic but acute (and, some said, skewed) portraits. Rarely does Strachey explore the details of a subject's daily or family life unless they point directly to an issue of character. In short, he pioneered a deeply sardonic and often scathingly funny biographical style. None of Strachey's Victorians emerge unscathed. In his hands, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush. [+]to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one. " Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form. " In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys-a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always. And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics. who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability. " As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not. -Jordana Moskowitz.
Creator: Lorna Raver
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-06
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $44.95
Price: $31.40
Review Chosen Forever / Blackstone Audiobooks:In the heartwarming sequel to Chosen by a Horse, Susan Richards tells of the continuing gifts brought to her life by her beloved horse, Lay Me Down. Readers cried with Susan Richards when, at the end of Chosen by a Horse, her beloved mare was laid to rest in the paddock where she had met her herd - Hot Shot, Tempo, and Georgia. Now they will cheer as Susan recounts the further wonders that came into her life as part of Lay Me Down's legacy: a bestselling book, a tour to support that book, the reconnection to friends and family who come to celebrate her success, and love- unexpected, complicated, and true. And so Chosen Forever works its magic as a sequel of self-discovery, as Susan continues to grow into her new life. Told in charming prose with her familiar and disarming sense of humor, and featuring a new supporting cast of animal characters (a Siamese cat, two pugs, tow Labs, and appearances by horses), this is another moving tale for readers facing their own challenges at recreating their lives. Chosen Forever is the story of what happens the day after all of your dreams come true- how you learn to accept that you deserve to be happy, and how those we love continue to offer us gifts long after they are gone.
Creator: Christian Miller
Publication date: 2003-01
List Price: $44.95
Price: $31.43
Review A Childhood in Scotland / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Creator: Brian Johnston
Publication date: 2000-09-18
Price: $31.22
Review Someone Who Was / HarperCollins Audio:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 790
Price: $120.00
Review His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra / Books on Tape:This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusive public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps and secret testimony) and interviewing more than 800 people in Sinatra's life (family, colleagues, law-enforcement officers, personal friends). Fully documented, highly detailed and filled with revealing anecdotes, here is the penetrating story of the explosively controversial and undeniably multi-talented legend who ruled the entertainment industry for more than fifty years. From the Paperback edition.
Creator: Margaret Thatcher
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1993-10-18
Dewey code: 320
List Price: $31.00
Price: $32.65
Review The Downing Street Years / HarperCollins Audio:This first volume of Margaret Thatcher's memoirs encompasses the whole of her time as Prime Minister - the formation of her goals in the early 1980s, the Falklands, the General Election victories of 1983 and 1987 and, eventually, the circumstances of her fall from political power. She also gives frank accounts of her dealings with foreign statesmen and her own ministers.
Creator: Lloyd James
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-06
List Price: $35.95
Price: $35.95
Review Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker, Library Edition (Ready Reader) / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Lloyd James
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-06
List Price: $35.95
Price: $35.95
Review Benjamin Franklin: Young Printer, Library Edition (Ready Reader) / Blackstone Audiobooks:
Creator: Flo Gibson
Publication date: 1990-06-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $30.95
Price: $30.95
Review A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) / Audio Book Contractors, Inc.:The valiant and lyrically descriptive letters written in 1873 by Isabella Bird, a courageous and spirited Englishwoman, tells her sister in vivid detail of her adventures on horseback over 800 miles of American wilderness. Five 90-minute cassettes.
Creator: Candida Lycett Green
Publication date: 1995-10-09
Price: $31.19
Review Letters: 1926-51 v. 1 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:The first volume of John Betjeman's letters covers his life from university days through to his period on the staff of "The Architectural Review" and as editor of the "Shell Guides" in the 1930s, his time as press attache in Dublin during the war, and as a broadcaster and public speaker. It was a time which established him as both an enthusiast and an authority in a wide range of literary, artistic and architectural fields. The letters written to people in the world of literature and the arts - T. S. Eliot, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh, John Piper, Kenneth Clark - often contain discourse on subjects ranging from poetry and religion to architecture and town planning. But many of them, as well as those written to family and cherished friends, including Alan Pryce-Jones, Myfanwy Piper and Nancy Mitford, are informal and often funny.
Creator: Julie Goodyear
Publication date: 2006-11-03
Price: $30.33
Review Just Julie / Macmillan Audio Books:For twenty-five years, Julie Goodyear became part of everyone's family when she played Bet Lynch, the loveable brassy barmaid of the Rovers Return in "Coronation Street". Now, at sixty-four (the age her mother was when she died), Julie feels the time is right to tell her amazing life story. Julie Goodyear's father walked out on the family soon after Julie's birth, so, Julie was brought up by her mother Alice and stepfather. Her upbringing in Manchester was impoverished, but Julie coped largely through the love for her spiritualist grandmother, who Julie would accompany when she was called upon by the local community to lay out the dead. At just thirteen, Julie had to deal with her beloved grandmother's death when she was found in a canal. Julie fell pregnant at sixteen, bringing shame and embarrassment, before marrying Ray Sutcliffe. The marriage only lasted three years. In 1966, Julie made a six-week appearance in "Coronation Street" as Bet Lynch from Elliston's Raincoat Factory, a role which made her Britain's best-loved barmaid and a cultural institution. In 1979, during a routine check up, Julie discovered she had cervical cancer and had two operations. At the time, she was given a year to live. [+]Various liaisons during the ensuing decade included Julie's first foray into a same sex relationship with her housekeeper. In 1987, Julie left "Coronation Street" for a while to nurse her mother, Alice who was dying of terminal cancer. Julie, finally, quit the series on 2 October 1995 after walking away with a lifetime Achievement Award at the first National Television Awards. In 1996, she was awarded an OBE. Julie's much anticipated autobiography reveals, for the first time and with incredible candour, the truth, sadness and spirit behind this larger than life woman.
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Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider, Library Edition (Ready Reader), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling, Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting, Wilbur and Orville Wright: Young Fliers, Library Edition (Ready Reader), The Zeal Of The Convert (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection) (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection), Remembering Peter Sellers, A Child Called It, Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator, Library Edition (Childhood of Famous Americans), Eminent Victorians, Chosen Forever, A Childhood in Scotland, Someone Who Was, His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, The Downing Street Years, Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker, Library Edition (Ready Reader), Benjamin Franklin: Young Printer, Library Edition (Ready Reader), A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection), Letters: 1926-51 v. 1 (BBC Radio Collection), Just JulieTop headlines: China IDs 19,000 of quake dead: A little over a quarter of the 70,000 people who died in a massive earthquake that struck Sichuan in May have been identified, a Chinese official said Friday. ›09:28 Slide show: Images: Celebrity cougar couples: Even though they're separated by years (decades in some cases), these celebrity twosomes are living proof that age is only a number. ›21:59 20 Nov, Thu Thousands of Iraqis protest U.S. pact: Thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on a central Baghdad square Friday for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact. ›11:19 2007 Tokyo Motor Show: Top 10 Wacky Concept Cars: MSN editors pick the 10 craziest concept cars at the Tokyo show. ›07:00 29 Oct, Mon Steelers cruise past Cincy: ›04:32 Michigan shocks No. 4 UCLA: ›05:10 Tastemakers have high hopes for Michelle Obama: Nov. 19: The Latin superstar talks to TODAYshow.coms Sara Haines about his music career, being the son of a famous musician and what he would be doing if he wasn't singing. 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